
This file contains the material necessary to replicate Barnes & O�Brien �Defending the Realm: The Appointment of Female Defense Ministers Worldwide.� Specifically you will find the following materials. 


1. Barnes&OBrien_DefenseMinisters_Code Book.pdf. This is a codebook containing the names and variable labels, and value codes  and value labels (for categorical variables) for all  variables in the dataset. The codebook also offers information about how the data were collected and where the variables are taken from. 

2. BarnesOBrienAJPSCode.R this is the R script necessary to replicate all of the analyses in the main text and supplementary appendix. Models were fit using R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31) on a Mac OS X-Version 10.9.5.

3. defenseJan2017.Rdata This is the data necessary to replicate all of the analyses in the main text and supplementary appendix. 

4. Appendix Charts 1 and 2.do This is a STATA do file for replicating Tables 1 and 2 in the online appendix. Tables were made using STATA 13. 

5. defenseJan2017-1.csv This is the data file for replicating Charts 1 and 2 in the online appendix. 



